Walking to Portugal.

[kayagee66]

Hi. I'm planning my Camino at the moment and am wondering if it would be easy enough to walk to Portugal after Santiago de C. Following the Camino Portugueses as far as the border. Would I see the way marks if I'm walking in the opposite direction? Transport links from Tui back to Santiago? Etc. Any advice would be very helpful. Thanks.

 

[SYates]

Have a google around for 'walking to Fatima' as far as I know a lot of Fatima pilgrims do use the Camino Portugues. Buen Camino, SY

 

[mspath]

Kayagee66,

December 2011 after finishing the CF I continued to Finisterre, per usual, and then walked down to the Portuguese border at Tui/Valenca do Minho. This involved going " backward " along the Camino Portugues from Santiago. To go backward is more complicated than you might think; since then the path was hardly well marked, searching for the famous yellow arrows pointing opposite my direction wasn't easy. Viewed backwards the arrows resembled anchors. Thus it all was a bit of a treasure hunt!

However, the Galician Xunta albergues along the route were GREAT in Padron, Caldas de Rei, Pontevedra, Redondela, and O Porrino. At Valenca do Minho where my husband met me by car we stayed within the hilltop 17th c fortress at the elegant Pousada Sao Teotonio which was SUPERB as was the view back to Tui.

Check out this 2010 blog in English by a cyclist who rode 'straight up' from Lisbon to Santiago. His descriptions and photos will give you an idea of the terrain.

Bom Caminho,

Margaret Meredith

 

[Albertinho]

Hi. I'm planning my Camino at the moment and am wondering if it would be easy enough to walk to Portugal after Santiago de C. Following the Camino Portugueses as far as the border. Would I see the way marks if I'm walking in the opposite direction? Transport links from Tui back to Santiago? Etc. Any advice would be very helpful. Thanks.

In addition to the answers of SYates and Margaret, follow the blue arrows direction Fatima.

 

[Castilian]

Transport links from Tui back to Santiago?

Alsa (www.alsa.es/en) offers a daily direct bus from Valença do Minho (on the Portuguese side of the border) to Santiago de Compostela. The bus stops in Tui too but Alsa isn't allowed to sell tickets from Tui to Santiago de Compostela.

By train you can take one from Tui to Vigo and another one from Vigo to Santiago de Compostela. There are also trains from Valença do Minho to Vigo (more trains than out of Tui).

By bus, you have more options changing buses in Vigo.

 

[Urban Trekker]

Hi. I'm planning my Camino at the moment and am wondering if it would be easy enough to walk to Portugal after Santiago de C. Following the Camino Portugueses as far as the border. Would I see the way marks if I'm walking in the opposite direction? Transport links from Tui back to Santiago? Etc. Any advice would be very helpful. Thanks.

In 2014 I passed a lot of people walking to Fatima. It's a more strenuous walk going that way, steeper climbs. Just follow the green arrows -->, they are usually with the yellow arrows <--. Buen Camino

Happy Trails

 

[Albertinho]

In 2014 I passed a lot of people walking to Fatima. It's a more strenuous walk going that way, steeper climbs. Just follow the green arrows -->, they are usually with the yellow arrows <--. Buen Camino

Happy Trails

Blue arrows ! Green arrows you only see from Nigrán nearby Baiona to Vigo along the waterside of the coastal caminho direction Santiago . -the lower route.
Through the mountains -the higher route- they are yellow !

 

[Urban Trekker]

Blue arrows ! Green arrows you only see from Nigrán nearby Baiona to Vigo along the waterside of the coastal caminho direction Santiago . -the lower route.
Through the mountains -the higher route- they are yellow !

It has been over a year so they might have been blue but I do remember seeing green arrows. Buen Camino